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The top lawyer at a Queens public defender’s office is patient zero of a COVID-19 outbreak — sparking an ongoing conflict over her decision to keep colleagues in the dark about her diagnosis for three days, the Daily News has learned. Lori Zeno, the embattled executive director of Queens Defenders, informed her office Sunday that a staff member had tested positive for COVID. It wasn’t until Tuesday that she admitted she was actually the infected staffer. ...After Zeno tested positive, four other Queens Defenders also got COVID, three of them attorneys who shared their names with the rest of the...

Several thugs tried to drag a woman off a Queens subway train Thursday night, but she fought back and fatally stabbed one of her tormenters before fleeing on another train, police said. The large group of men - perhaps as many as eight - surrounded the woman outside a chicken restaurant above the 21st St.-Queensbridge station about 9 p.m., police and a witness said. The harassment, which may have included unwanted sexual advances toward the woman and grabbing, continued as she entered the subway station. The woman broke free from the men and frantically ran down to the platform and...

This is an update to the "New York Residences Raided in Terrorism Probe" post. UPDATE 5-New York homes raided in terrorism probe * No imminent danger, congressmen say * Focus on one man who met with people in Queens * Apartment shared by five Afghan men searched - witness * Militant ideology sympathetic to al Qaeda detected - NYT